Unit 19389

Category: Layer    dug in 2012

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: mix room fill,packing material 

Data Category Information: Location: building; Deposition: heterogeneous

Dimensions: 2,18 x 0,40 x 0,47 m 

Discussion: This was a mixed room fill placed just below the floor [u.19388] of a building from level VII excavated by Mellaart. Its fragmentary preservation made it impossible to record its actual character and extension. However the current execution of the unit has revealed that it was a compound layered deposit consisting of a wide spectrum of different layers and materials such as fragments of bricks and mortars, collapsed plasters and midden-like accumulation. On the bottom of the unit there was an easily recognizable horizon of ash, combined with silty-sand and occasional charcoals. In spite of compound nature of the layer it had been excavated as one unit due to its incompleteness (Truncation by Mellaart) and because the deposit veiled actual vertical sequence of walls from several settlement levels (from VIII – VII). 

Recognition: colour, consistency 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel, hand pick 

Condition: dry, windy 

Consistency: firm, friable 

Colour: mid grey, mid brown 

Texture: silty sand, occasional bulk of clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: fragments of bricks and mortar, plaster, ash, occasional charcoal, bone, obsidian, shell, flint, clay balls, stones, 

Post-depositional Features: rodent 

Basal Boundary: very sharp, distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 19390 below: (Click to view the record) 19388 

Dry sieve volume: 40 

Total Deposit Volume: 70 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 2

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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